Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

Comics for musicians

Dan the naive guitarist

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Popularity rank 26 #179. The Paul Reed Smith 513 Rosewood

October 16, 2008

RONI: Hey hey HEY! What're you doing with THAT guitar?
GUITARPLANET CLERK: JUST using this 513 Rosewood to see if the amp's working...

RONI: Look, don't try and upsell us to THAT guitar!
GUITARPLANET CLERK: Look, I'll just hit ONE chord. I'm NOT trying to upsell you on this guitar. I swear.

SOUND: perfect E chord

GUITARPLANET CLERK: THIS guitar upsells you all by itself...
RONI: We... don't want... THAT guitar...

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Popularity rank 27 #336. My boss is still pissed

January 13, 2010

JOHN: My settlement money got cut off, Dan. Hook me up with a GIG. Something EASY. No collating.
DAN: I dunno, my boss is still pissed at you.

JOHN: What, because I double-parked him in that one time? C'mon!
DAN: But... his daughter was in LABOR, man. He missed the birth of his grandson.

JOHN: I've SEEN his daughter, Dan. BELIEVE me. He'll GET more grandkids.
DAN: Heh, YEAH…

DAN: Wait, what does that MEAN?
JOHN: It means I'll see to it PERSONALLY if I have to, Dan! Just let me talk to the guy!

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Popularity rank 28 #331. William’s audition

January 1, 2010

WILLIAM: I'm WIlliam Jang. I'm here for the bassist audition?
DAN: Hi Will!
RONI: Have you filled out your application?

WILLIAM: Heh, yeah...
RONI: Um…this is... mostly BLANK.

WILLIAM: Oh… I… I thought it was, like, a JOKE.
RONI: A JOKE?!

WILLIAM: Yeah... I mean, there's an ESSAY section.
DAN: Aw, just let him play, Roni...
RONI: He didn't even solve the TANGRAM puzzles!

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Popularity rank 29 #203. Parentheses in the title

January 29, 2009

JOHN: Smart bands have cool song titles. Like with parentheses. I wish we had songs with parentheses in the titles...
DAN: We have that one with a tilde.

JOHN: Which one?
DAN: The song about your GeoCities page.

JOHN: Oh yeah...

JOHN: That song did NOT age well.
DAN: No...

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Popularity rank 30 #103. MySpace influences

February 14, 2006

JOHN: OK... then MySpace has a spot for our influences.
CHRISTINA: How about John Adams?
DAN: John Adams?

CHRISTINA: Yeah. I read a biography of him last month. It's really influenced me.
JOHN: I'm not putting John Adams, Christina.

CHRISTINA: OK... but he's one of the most unheralded heros of the American revolution.
JOHN: Great! But how many chords did he know?

RONI: How many chords do you know?
JOHN: I know some chords!
DAN: How 'bout Frank Zappa? He was a revolutionary sorta dude.
CHRISTINA: Zappa knew some chords.

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